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Currently, conserving energy effectively plays key role in people's lives. Some people think that the goverment should increase the prices of gasoline and electricity for conserving energy, while others think differently. Both arguments may have their own reasons to support their own ideas. I believe that increasing the prices of gasoline and electricity to coserve energy is not a good idea for the following two subsequent reasons.
First of all, there are better ways of conserving energy. For one, promoting govermental campaigns can usher people into the right direction by increasing the awareness of people about this issue. Many people are immature to understand the importance of energy conservation and are likely to waste lots of electricity. At such time, public advertisements and campaigns can enlighten them so that they become more aware of this issue. As a recent study conducted by a world-top tier university when given choices of promoting campaigns for energy conservation and increasing the prices of gasoline and electricity, the majority of people willingly chose the former optin and they also readily admitted the advantages of the former option far outweigh those of the latter one. Therefore, there is better way to conserve energy effectively than the way to increase the prices of gasoline and electricity.
Furthermore, the goverment should not increase the prices of gasoline and electricity because many people today are weary with too much stress. They should be able to save their money as much as they can so that they can have fun and find emotional relief. By going out for shopping or traveling, they can temporarily escape from their daily life and gain some breathing space. In this regard, the goverment should not pass any financial burden on people. When I am stressed, I often go to see a movie or have a nice dinners with my friends and enjoy shopping to release my stress and gain breathing space. However, if the prices of gasoline and electricity would increase, I could not afford to enjoy these things. Therefore, if the goverment increases the prices of gasoline and electricity, it could give people finacial burdens and people may miss chanes to release their stress.
As explicitly and logically elaborated above, I disagree the statement that in order to conserve energy effectively, the government should increase the prices of gasoline and electricity.
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